History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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Never before or since, ... has the world been brought so close to nuclear war.Donald Kagan
War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
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We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
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